cfp - ecocriticism and environmental studieshttp://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/category/ecocriticism-and-environmental-studies
enEnglish Graduate Conference 2019: Taking Up Spaceshttp://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2019/03/12/english-graduate-conference-2019-taking-up-spaces
<div class="field field-name-field-cfp-updated field-type-datestamp field-label-above"><div class="field-label">updated:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Wednesday, March 13, 2019 - 10:36am</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-contact-name field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">full name / name of organization:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Simon Fraser University</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-contact-email field-type-email field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">contact email:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="mailto:gradconf@sfu.ca">gradconf@sfu.ca</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-categories field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">categories (up to 5):&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/ecocriticism-and-environmental-studies">ecocriticism and environmental studies</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/gender-studies-and-sexuality">gender studies and sexuality</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/graduate-conferences">graduate conferences</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/interdisciplinary">interdisciplinary</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/world-literatures-and-indigenous-studies">world literatures and indigenous studies</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-due-date field-type-datetime field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">deadline for submissions:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">April 15, 2019</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-content field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>CALL FOR PAPERS</p>
<p>Taking Up Spaces</p>
<p>Simon Fraser University, Department of English</p>
<p>June 7-9 , 2019<br />Deadline for submissions: April 15, 2019</p>
<p>S P A C E S<br />We live in them, move through them, occupy them, gentrify them, lay claim, then<br />reclaim them, tame them and maim them. We build them, enrich them, define<br />them, consign them. They can be first or final frontiers, domestic or foreign, and<br />they can even encapsulate moments—curvatures in time. Given that space is the<br />fundamental medium through which we live our lives, how do we define spaces,<br />and how do spaces define us?</p>
<p>Simon Fraser University is located on the traditional and ancestral territories of the<br />xwməθkwəy̓ əm (Musqueam), Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh),<br />Skwxwú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), Katzie, and kwikwəƛ̓ əm (Kwikwetlem)<br />peoples, and understanding what it means to live, work, and study on this unceded<br />land is an essential part of defining our own relationship to space.</p>
<p>Topics involving the idea of spaces include safe and compromised spaces,<br />welcoming and dangerous spaces, and even the extra-terrestrial. Outer space, inner<br />space, mental space, workspace, common space, private space, space the likes of<br />which has never been seen before. It could be freeing up space on your hard drive,<br />needing more space in a relationship, planning out space to grow, finding a space<br />to call your own. It’s a lot. So join us, and take up some space in the discussion!<br />We invite proposals from graduate students at all levels, intellectuals both inside<br />and outside the university, and those who do not identify within these categories.</p>
<p>We actively encourage collaborative, creative, and multimedia work alongside<br />strictly academic work. We invite work that addresses the following questions<br />across disciplinary approaches:</p>
<p>● How do we approach ideas of space? What does space mean in your field,<br />and how might that definition be different from more generalized<br />understandings?<br />● How are spaces given character, form, identity or agency?<br />● What does it mean to have spaces that are safe, inclusive, or restricted,<br />sacred or private?<br />● Is it even possible to create a “safe space?” Is it desirable?<br />● What tools do we have to help us understand our own relationships to<br />space? Do maps and projections define spaces? What other kinds of borders<br />matter to us, and what do those spaces mean to the non-human entities that<br />we exist alongside?<br />● What spaces restrict us as people, and what responsibility do we have to the<br />places we occupy?<br />● What does it mean to share space? To be a neighbor? To form a community?<br />● What spaces define you, what spaces do you define, and what sort of work<br />needs to be done in making or defining new spaces?<br />● How can we approach space exploration in non-colonial/imperial ways?<br />● What does it mean to “space out” and what effects can spacing out have on<br />the brain? What does it mean to be a “space cadet” or to be “spacey?”<br />● How can line spacing or letter spacing impact a work, in its printing or<br />reading?<br />● How do negative and positive spaces define works of art? Of poetry?<br />● What does it mean to make space for underrepresented voices?<br />● Cyberspace? That’s it, that’s the whole question.</p>
<p>Please send proposals via email or post, no later than April 15, 2019 , to:</p>
<p><a href="mailto:gradconf@sfu.ca">gradconf@sfu.ca</a></p>
<p>Or:</p>
<p>Graduate Conference Committee c/o English Department<br />8888 University Drive<br />Burnaby, BC<br />V5A 1S6</p>
<p>Proposals should include:</p>
<p>1. An abstract of no more than 300 words describing the genre and topic of your<br />presentation<br />2. Your name and details for your preferred mode of contact (postal address,<br />email, phone number, or literary code)<br />3. A brief biography of no more than 250 words<br />4. Any institutional or organizational affiliation (optional)<br />5. Any technical (Audio/Visual) requirements for your presentation<br />Note: these proposals may be for individual presentations or panels. Those who do<br />submit individually will be matched by our conference organizers.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 12 Mar 2019 21:40:17 +0000jviczko@sfu.ca79796 at http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.eduLocations & Dislocations: Places & Spaces in Contemporary Women's Writinghttp://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2019/03/12/locations-dislocations-places-spaces-in-contemporary-womens-writing
<div class="field field-name-field-cfp-updated field-type-datestamp field-label-above"><div class="field-label">updated:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Wednesday, March 13, 2019 - 10:40am</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-contact-name field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">full name / name of organization:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Contemporary Women&#039;s Writing Association &amp; Algoma University</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-contact-email field-type-email field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">contact email:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="mailto:LocationsDislocationsCWWA@gmail.com">LocationsDislocationsCWWA@gmail.com</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-categories field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">categories (up to 5):&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/ecocriticism-and-environmental-studies">ecocriticism and environmental studies</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/gender-studies-and-sexuality">gender studies and sexuality</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/general-announcements">general announcements</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/international-conferences">international conferences</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/twentieth-century-and-beyond">twentieth century and beyond</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-due-date field-type-datetime field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">deadline for submissions:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">March 18, 2019</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-content field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p align="center">Locations and Dislocations: Places and Spaces in Contemporary Women’s Writing</p>
<p align="center">International Contemporary Women’s Writing Association Conference</p>
<p align="center">3-5 July 2019, Algoma University, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada</p>
<p align="center">Call for Papers DEADLINE MARCH 18</p>
<p> </p>
<p>The 2019 Contemporary Women’s Writing Association International Conference theme is inspired by its location at Algoma University in Sault Ste. Marie, Northern Ontario, Canada. Algoma University occupies the historical site of the former Shingwauk Residential School to which displaced Anishinaabe children were sent to receive a colonial “education.” Survivors of the Shingwauk Residential School formed the Children of Shingwauk Alumni Association and have helped guide the development of education here, launching the first major, permanent, residential school Survivor-driven exhibition in a former residential school building in 2018. Algoma University sits alongside Shingwauk Kinoomaage Gamig (an Anishinaabek institution for university studies) on this sacred site set aside for the fulfillment of Chief Shingwauk’s vision of respectful inter-cultural education. Surrounded by iconic Canadian maple bush in the heart of the Great Lakes, Anishinaabe people refer to this region as “Bawating”—“the place of the rapids”—and it has a long history as a meeting and trading place. As a declining steel town, Sault Ste. Marie raises crucial questions about the future of post-industrial cities. The city has staged the often fraught encounter between economic development based on extractive and heavy industries and the preservation of areas of outstanding natural beauty. Sault Ste. Marie is also a border city twinned with Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, U.S. </p>
<p>The Contemporary Women’s Writing Association invites submissions for 20-minute presentations that examine how contemporary women writers have engaged with places and spaces in all the complexities suggested by Algoma University’s location. How should we treat historical sites of violence? Can they be reclaimed and what is the role of writing in that process of reclamation? What kinds of spaces are depicted as “sacred” by contemporary women writers? How do particular landscapes play a role in constructing national myths and identities? What does it mean to have an Indigenous connection to land and place? In what ways have contemporary women writers depicted borders? How are contemporary women writers writing the city? What contributions has contemporary women’s writing made to our cultural and political debates about how to interact with natural spaces?</p>
<p>Submissions are welcomed on any genre of women’s writing from the 1960s to the present day. Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:</p>
<p>• Historical places as memorials or counter-memorials</p>
<p>• Indigenous ways of relating to place</p>
<p>• Depictions of sacred places</p>
<p>• Landscapes and national identities</p>
<p>• The City</p>
<p>• Genres defined by their settings (e.g. campus novels)</p>
<p>• Domestic spaces</p>
<p>• Contrasts between rural and urban settings</p>
<p>• Preserving or losing spaces</p>
<p>• Moving between spaces</p>
<p>• How contemporary women writers inherit or re-write literary modes of depicting landscape</p>
<p>• Nostalgia, solastalgia and/or eco-anxiety</p>
<p>Submit 300-word abstracts for a 20-minute presentation to <a href="mailto:LocationsDislocationsCWWA@gmail.com">LocationsDislocationsCWWA@gmail.com</a> by March 18, 2019. </p>
<p> </p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 12 Mar 2019 19:20:50 +0000alice.ridout@algomau.ca79794 at http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.eduMargaret Fuller's Ecologies (MLA 2020- deadline March 25, 2019))http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2019/03/10/margaret-fullers-ecologies-mla-2020-deadline-march-25-2019
<div class="field field-name-field-cfp-updated field-type-datestamp field-label-above"><div class="field-label">updated:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Wednesday, March 13, 2019 - 10:52am</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-contact-name field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">full name / name of organization:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Margaret Fuller Society</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-contact-email field-type-email field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">contact email:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="mailto:sonia.diloreto@unito.it">sonia.diloreto@unito.it</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-categories field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">categories (up to 5):&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/american">american</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/ecocriticism-and-environmental-studies">ecocriticism and environmental studies</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/gender-studies-and-sexuality">gender studies and sexuality</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/poetry">poetry</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-due-date field-type-datetime field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">deadline for submissions:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">March 25, 2019</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-content field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><strong>Margaret Fuller's Ecologies</strong></p>
<p>This panel seeks contributions that explore ecology, environment, and the natural world in relation to any aspect of Margaret Fuller’s writings. We also welcome proposals that approach Fuller along with other writers, and we encourage international perspectives.</p>
<p>Presentations might consider (but are not limited to): Fuller as ecotheoristEcofeminismEcopoetryEnviromental justiceSoundscapesAnimal studiesIndigeneityPosthumanismTeaching ecology with FullerBeing human with nature
</p><p>If interested, please send a 300 word paper proposal and a short Vita by March 25, 2019 to Sonia Di Loreto: <a class="yiv0023519745" href="mailto:sonia.diloreto@unito.it" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">sonia.diloreto@unito.it</a></p>
</div></div></div>Sun, 10 Mar 2019 07:12:16 +0000sonia.diloreto@unito.it79769 at http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.eduPosthuman Climate Fictionhttp://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2019/03/08/posthuman-climate-fiction
<div class="field field-name-field-cfp-updated field-type-datestamp field-label-above"><div class="field-label">updated:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Tuesday, March 12, 2019 - 10:14am</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-contact-name field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">full name / name of organization:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Kaitlin Mondello, The Graduate Center, CUNY</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-contact-email field-type-email field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">contact email:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="mailto:kmondello@gradcenter.cuny.edu">kmondello@gradcenter.cuny.edu</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-categories field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">categories (up to 5):&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/ecocriticism-and-environmental-studies">ecocriticism and environmental studies</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/popular-culture">popular culture</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/science-and-culture">science and culture</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/twentieth-century-and-beyond">twentieth century and beyond</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/world-literatures-and-indigenous-studies">world literatures and indigenous studies</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-due-date field-type-datetime field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">deadline for submissions:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">March 15, 2019</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-content field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>MLA 2020 Posthuman Climate Fiction Presentation #9142<strong>Kaitlin Mondello</strong>, Graduate Center, City U of New York Type:Special Sessions E-mail Address:<a href="mailto:kmondello@gradcenter.cuny.edu">kmondello@gradcenter.cuny.edu</a> Description &amp; Requirements:This panel explores the growing genre of climate fiction. Papers may address the role of the (post)human in the genre; interrogate classifications including "human" "Cli-Fi," etc.; and/or consider the novel form. 500-word abstracts, short bios. Submission Deadline:Friday, 15 March 2019
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</div></div></div>Fri, 08 Mar 2019 20:35:33 +0000kmondello@gradcenter.cuny.edu79766 at http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu“Strange Habits”: Clothes, climes, and the environment in Shakespeare and his contemporarieshttp://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2019/03/06/%E2%80%9Cstrange-habits%E2%80%9D-clothes-climes-and-the-environment-in-shakespeare-and-his
<div class="field field-name-field-cfp-updated field-type-datestamp field-label-above"><div class="field-label">updated:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Wednesday, March 13, 2019 - 10:48am</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-contact-name field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">full name / name of organization:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Prof. Anne-Marie Miller-Blaise / Université Sorbonne Nouvelle </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-contact-email field-type-email field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">contact email:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="mailto:anne-marie.miller-blaise@sorbonne-nouvelle.fr">anne-marie.miller-blaise@sorbonne-nouvelle.fr</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-categories field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">categories (up to 5):&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/cultural-studies-and-historical-approaches">cultural studies and historical approaches</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/ecocriticism-and-environmental-studies">ecocriticism and environmental studies</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/international-conferences">international conferences</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/renaissance">renaissance</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/theatre">theatre</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-due-date field-type-datetime field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">deadline for submissions:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">May 15, 2019</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-content field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p align="center"><strong>International Conference</strong></p>
<p align="center"><strong> </strong></p>
<p align="center"><strong>“Strange Habits”: Clothes, climes, and the environment in Shakespeare and his contemporaries</strong></p>
<p align="center"><strong> </strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<p>Organized by<strong>Sophie Chiari (Université Clermont Auvergne) </strong>and<strong>Anne-Marie Miller-Blaise (Institut Universitaire de France, Université Paris-3 Sorbonne Nouvelle)</strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<p><strong>14-16 May 2020</strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong></p>
<p><strong>Université Clermont Auvergne (UCA)</strong></p>
<p align="center"><strong> </strong></p>
<p align="center"><strong> </strong></p>
<p><strong>Confirmed speakers:</strong></p>
<p>Patricia Lennox (The Gallatin School, New York University) </p>
<p>Ulinka Rublak (University of Cambridge)</p>
<p>Maria Hayward (University of Southampton)</p>
<p>Dympna Callaghan (Syracuse University)</p>
<p>Sophie Jane Pitman (Aalto University)</p>
<p align="center"> </p>
<p> </p>
<p>Taking a cue from the current growth of ecocriticism and of material approaches in Shakespeare studies as well as in global Renaissance studies, this conference seeks to cross and confront those two critical trends by looking at one same object — clothing. Clothing can be explored from a variety of perspectives and calls for cross-disciplinary dialogue between social history, art history, dramatic history, fashion history, literature, sociology, and anthropology. The sheer variety of terms that can be used to designate clothing speaks to the far-reaching implications of dress. The now archaic term “habit,” referring at once to a “garment” or “apparel” and, beyond that, to a person’s outward appearance, was of common usage in the early modern period and was the word Shakespeare favoured in reference to clothing in his plays. While it can designate the dress or attire of a function or profession, it also introduces the notions of characteristic behaviour, natural mode of growth, and habitation (or habitat). The conference will focus on early modern dress such as it is represented on stage and the ways in which dress mediates England’s relation to foreign places and “climes.” </p>
<p> </p>
<p>While the relation between dress and gender, disguise and identity-building, and the importance of the numerous sumptuary laws in the shaping of social identity has been largely explored, much less attention has been devoted to the relation between dress and the ecological environments for which dress was devised. Whether worn by the poor, the middling sort, or the nobility, clothes need to be looked at not only in the relation to broad social, cultural, and material contexts, but also in relation to climactic or geographic environments. Because clothes protect the human body and serve as an interface between the body and the environment, dress can be considered as the most immediate locus for the establishment of any sort of ecology, in its etymological sense of a “discourse” or “science” of the <em>oikos</em>, that is of the home<em>, </em>or human habitat. From their production down to the way they are worn, clothes interweave natural materials and artifice, the human body and the social body, the weather conditions and the culture in which they are born and those to which they adapt. They come to materialize and epitomize identity in its various inclinations and inflections. Conversely, they participate in shaping the environments or the landscapes for whose diversity they stand metonymically. </p>
<p> </p>
<p>In staging climes through costumes, Shakespeare and his contemporaries invite us to decentre our perspective by, first, looking beyond clothes as an object and clothes as a means of fashioning personal identity and <em>personae </em>(or impersonations) on stage, toward clothes as a privileged space of “eco-logy,” and second, by adopting an anthropological gaze on early modern English dress and culture. It is through a confrontation with foreign dress, that is with the materials of difference, that English identity can be better gauged. Ultimately, this conference aims at exploring how dramatic text and textile enrich each other in the early modern period, and how dress and costume are essential in England’s attempt to define its own cultural identity within a new global space inclusive of many different climes reflected on stage. </p>
<p> </p>
<p>We are seeking proposals that inquire into the complex ecology, economy and anthropology of dress, drawing notably on the material history of concrete elements such as pigments, dies, and raw materials (sometimes imported from distant regions and climes) used to make clothing and costumes. We also invite papers with more literary approaches that look at the ways in which dress on stage becomes a means to negotiate the self or same in relation to the other or embodies contemporary understandings of climes and the environment. Proposals may focus on a specific costume or a specific dramatic corpus by Shakespeare or one of his contemporaries. Comparative approaches, drawing on European and Global materials and practices, are also encouraged.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>The conference will include outreach activities, such as workshops and round-tables open to the general public, and a visit of the <em>Centre National du Costume de Scène</em>(the French Stage Costume National Centre, situated at Moulins), where part of these activities will take place. We welcome proposals in English from established scholars, doctoral students, curators and other professionals working on or with early modern dress and more contemporary costumes representing that period. </p>
<p> </p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>300-word proposals, along with a brief CV (1 page maximum)</strong>, should be sent <strong>by May 15, 2019 </strong>to the conference organizers:</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Sophie Chiari (Professor of Early Modern Literature, Université Clermont Auvergne, <a href="http://ihrim.uca.fr/article6.html">http://ihrim.uca.fr/article6.html</a>): <strong><a href="mailto:sophie.chiari@orange.fr">sophie.chiari@orange.fr</a></strong></p>
<p>and</p>
<p>Anne-Marie Miller-Blaise (Professor of Early Modern Literature and Cultural Studies, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3, <a href="http://www.univ-paris3.fr/mme-miller-blaise-anne-marie-90601.kjsp">http://www.univ-paris3.fr/mme-miller-blaise-anne-marie-90601.kjsp</a>): <strong><a href="mailto:anne-marie.miller-blaise@sorbonne-nouvelle.fr">anne-marie.miller-blaise@sorbonne-nouvelle.fr</a></strong></p>
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<p><strong>Advisory board:</strong></p>
<p>Anne-Valérie Dulac (Sorbonne Université)</p>
<p>Russell Jackson (University of Birmingham)</p>
<p>Sophie Lemercier-Goddard (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon)</p>
<p>Robert Lublin (University of Massachusetts Boston)</p>
<p>Chantal Schütz (Ecole Polytechnique)</p>
</div></div></div>Wed, 06 Mar 2019 13:27:54 +0000miller-blaise.am@wanadoo.fr79723 at http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.eduASLE panel at the RMMLAhttp://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2019/03/05/asle-panel-at-the-rmmla
<div class="field field-name-field-cfp-updated field-type-datestamp field-label-above"><div class="field-label">updated:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Wednesday, March 13, 2019 - 9:12am</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-contact-name field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">full name / name of organization:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Association for the Study of Literature and Environment panel at the Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Conference</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-contact-email field-type-email field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">contact email:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="mailto:ebayer05@uw.edu">ebayer05@uw.edu</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-categories field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">categories (up to 5):&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/ecocriticism-and-environmental-studies">ecocriticism and environmental studies</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/interdisciplinary">interdisciplinary</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/pedagogy">pedagogy</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/science-and-culture">science and culture</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-due-date field-type-datetime field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">deadline for submissions:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">April 1, 2019</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-content field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (ASLE) hosts a panel at the annual Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association Confernce (RMMLA) each year and is currently seeking proposals. This year's conference will meet in El Paso, Texas October 10-12, 2019. Proposals on any topic related to ecocriticism and the environmental arts and humanities are welcome, including pedagogical papers. Send proposals of 250-300 words to Ellen Bayer at <a href="mailto:ebayer05@uw.edu">ebayer05@uw.edu</a>. Deadline for submissions is April 1st, 2019.</p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 05 Mar 2019 19:26:55 +0000ebayer05@uw.edu79717 at http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.eduPlanetary Utopias, Capitalist Dystopias: Justice, Nature & the Liberation of Lifehttp://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2019/03/05/planetary-utopias-capitalist-dystopias-justice-nature-the-liberation-of-life
<div class="field field-name-field-cfp-updated field-type-datestamp field-label-above"><div class="field-label">updated:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Tuesday, March 12, 2019 - 10:13am</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-contact-name field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">full name / name of organization:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">World-Ecology Research Network</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-contact-email field-type-email field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">contact email:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="mailto:worldecologyconferences@gmail.com">worldecologyconferences@gmail.com</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-categories field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">categories (up to 5):&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/african-american">african-american</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/cultural-studies-and-historical-approaches">cultural studies and historical approaches</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/ecocriticism-and-environmental-studies">ecocriticism and environmental studies</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/interdisciplinary">interdisciplinary</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/world-literatures-and-indigenous-studies">world literatures and indigenous studies</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-due-date field-type-datetime field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">deadline for submissions:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">March 15, 2019</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-content field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>San Francisco, May 30-31, June 1, 2019, California Institute of Integral Studies</p>
<p><strong>EXTENDED DEADLINE, ABSTRACT SUMBISSIONS: MARCH 15</strong></p>
<p>Sponsored by the Department of Anthropology and Social Change, CIIS</p>
<p>Fifth Annual Conference of the World-Ecology Research Network</p>
<p>Submission form: <a href="https://goo.gl/forms/F8PplUr9KurGVcLD3">https://goo.gl/forms/F8PplUr9KurGVcLD3</a></p>
<p>The most dystopian story brings out capitalism’s darkest and most oppressive features. And the most utopian stories bring out modernity’s most hopeful and emancipatory features of modernity. Utopias/dystopias are at once predictive retrodictive. These forms of story-telling and world-making are increasingly necessary in the twenty-first century. The unfolding climate crisis signals a tipping point not only for the biosphere, but also for established modes of power, thought, accumulation, and domination. Utopian imaginaries help us identify the intimate connections between power, in/justice, and the web of life in the modern world – and to unfold a politics of liberation that extends to all life. <em>Planetary Utopias, Capitalist Dystopias</em> explores the tension between the historical limits of the possible and the “impossible” projects of planetary justice.</p>
<p>The World-Ecology Research Network is a global community of scholars, artists, and activists. We welcome all forms of emancipatory interpretation, theory, and analysis committed to planetary justice for planetary life. Recognizing that no tradition or discipline holds all the answers, the Network cultivates a diversity of perspectives on humans in the web of life – past, present, and future. For us, the web of life is not a factor or variable, but a fundamental moment of all human activity, from birth to death, from the everyday to the rise and fall of civilizations. Common to these perspectives is a critique of Nature/Society dualism as a cosmology and world-historical practice of domination. A conversation and praxis rather than a perspective, world-ecology welcomes all who embrace the challenging of forging new modes of knowledge in an era of climate crisis.</p>
<p><strong>with talks by Kim Stanley Robinson and Jason W. Moore</strong></p>
<p>The World-Ecology Research Network invites proposals on the widest range of topics addressing utopias and dystopias – as well as those related to central themes in the world-ecology conversation. We also welcome proposals for thematic sessions. We are happy to work with artists and activists to develop creative ways to present their work in ways that may differ from conventional academic presentations.</p>
<p>Please follow our blog to be the first to get updates.</p>
<p>Possible Topics Include:</p>
<ul><li>Ecologies of Hope</li>
<li>Democratic Modernity and Capitalist Modernity</li>
<li>Reparation Ecologies</li>
<li>Hydropolitics, Hydro-Crises, &amp; the End of Cheap Water</li>
<li>World-Ecology and Social Ecology: Dialogues</li>
<li>From the “Urbanization of the Countryside” to Planetary Urbanization</li>
<li>Planetary Daydreaming: Utopian Spaces, Dystopian Spaces</li>
<li>Women and Work in the Making of Planetary Crisis</li>
<li>The New Global Arc of Fire: California to the Arctic</li>
<li>Social Reproduction, Unpaid Work</li>
<li>Racial Capitalocenes</li>
<li>Feminist Utopias</li>
<li>State-Making and State-Breaking in the Capitalist World-Ecology</li>
<li>Organizing Utopia after the “End of History”</li>
<li>Capitalist Dystopias: Ecocides and Genocides in the Necrocene</li>
<li>Social Reproduction after the Great Recession: Evictions and the Right to Stay</li>
<li>Anthropocene/Capitalocene/Cthulucene</li>
<li>Cultural Materialism and the Utopian Imaginary State Socialisms and Productivist Natures</li>
<li>Utopias: Social, Ecological, or World-Ecological</li>
</ul><p>Important Dates: </p>
<p>February 20 Abstract Submissions Due March 15 Extended deadline for Abstract Submissions</p>
<p>Submission form: <a href="https://goo.gl/forms/F8PplUr9KurGVcLD3">https://goo.gl/forms/F8PplUr9KurGVcLD3</a></p>
<p>March 20 Registration Opens</p>
<p><a href="https://worldecologyconferencesblog.wordpress.com/">https://worldecologyconferencesblog.wordpress.com/</a></p>
<p><a href="mailto:Worldecologyconferences@gmail.com">Worldecologyconferences@gmail.com</a></p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 05 Mar 2019 14:36:22 +0000dgildea@binghamton.edu79716 at http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.eduCall for Submissions: Special Issue "Gothic Ecologies"http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2019/03/05/call-for-submissions-special-issue-gothic-ecologies
<div class="field field-name-field-cfp-updated field-type-datestamp field-label-above"><div class="field-label">updated:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Wednesday, March 13, 2019 - 10:48am</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-contact-name field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">full name / name of organization:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Katharina Boehm</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-contact-email field-type-email field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">contact email:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="mailto:katharina.boehm@ur.de">katharina.boehm@ur.de</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-categories field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">categories (up to 5):&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/ecocriticism-and-environmental-studies">ecocriticism and environmental studies</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/eighteenth-century">eighteenth century</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/journals-and-collections-of-essays">journals and collections of essays</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/twentieth-century-and-beyond">twentieth century and beyond</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/victorian">victorian</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-due-date field-type-datetime field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">deadline for submissions:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">June 1, 2019</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-content field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><strong>Gothic Ecologies in British Culture: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present (<strong>Special Issue of the <em>Journal for the Study of British Cultures</em>, 2/2020) </strong><br /></strong></p>
<p>This special issue examines the nexus between Gothic forms of cultural expression, representations of the natural world, and ecological concerns from the eighteenth century to the present with a particular focus on British culture. Even though the Anthropocene is still a contested term used to denote our current geological era of human intervention in the biosphere, some critics date its beginning precisely to the historical moment that also saw the birth of the Gothic in the late eighteenth century – namely the advent of the industrial revolution in Britain.</p>
<p>The Gothic aesthetic in its many guises has always resisted and productively challenged the dichotomies between nature and culture that were erected in the realms of politics and the natural sciences. For this reason, Gothic media, texts, and artefacts are particularly apt at throwing into relief the networked relations between humans and the non-human (or more-than-human) sphere. We invite our contributors to build on recent interventions by theorists and philosophers (such as Jane Bennett, Timothy Clark, Philippe Descola, Timothy Morton, Jedediah Purdy and Kate Rigby) to enhance and complement the range of critical approaches regularly employed in literary and cultural studies. We hope that the insights of new critical directions such as object-oriented ontology and the new materialism can help us to review the relationships between humans, the natural world and non-human others in British Gothic cultures.</p>
<p>Possible topics might include (but are by no means limited to) the following:</p>
<ul><li>climate change and Gothic representations of nature</li>
<li>Gothic tropes in ecocriticism</li>
<li>Gothic nature and dystopia/apocalypse</li>
<li>Posthumanist perspectives on Gothic literature and media</li>
<li>the Gothic and the Anthropocene</li>
<li>the Gothic and/as anti-pastoral</li>
<li>eco-horror/eco-Gothic</li>
<li>uncanny returns of the natural non-human in human ‘civilisation’</li>
<li>Gothic technology and the environment</li>
</ul><p>Please submit <strong>abstracts </strong>(400-500 words) and a short bio note by <strong>1 June 2019 </strong>to both guest editors for this issue: Katharina Boehm (<a href="mailto:katharina.boehm@ur.de">katharina.boehm@ur.de</a>) and Stephan Karschay (<a href="mailto:stephan.karschay@uni-hamburg.de">stephan.karschay@uni-hamburg.de</a>)</p>
<p><strong>Finished articles (5,000 words) will be due by 1 November 2019.</strong></p>
</div></div></div>Tue, 05 Mar 2019 13:24:27 +0000katharina.boehm@ur.de79712 at http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu“Protect our Waters”: Indigenous Women's Activism and Climate Justicehttp://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2019/03/04/%E2%80%9Cprotect-our-waters%E2%80%9D-indigenous-womens-activism-and-climate-justice
<div class="field field-name-field-cfp-updated field-type-datestamp field-label-above"><div class="field-label">updated:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Monday, March 11, 2019 - 11:45am</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-contact-name field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">full name / name of organization:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Gender Forum: An Internet Journal for Gender Studies</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-contact-email field-type-email field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">contact email:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="mailto:gender-forum@uni-koeln.de">gender-forum@uni-koeln.de</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-categories field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">categories (up to 5):&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/ecocriticism-and-environmental-studies">ecocriticism and environmental studies</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/ethnicity-and-national-identity">ethnicity and national identity</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/interdisciplinary">interdisciplinary</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/popular-culture">popular culture</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/twentieth-century-and-beyond">twentieth century and beyond</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-due-date field-type-datetime field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">deadline for submissions:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">March 18, 2019</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-content field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>“You can’t drink oil, keep it in the soil,”“Protect the Sacred”and “Water is Life”are slogans which shaped the year 2016 and which keep reverberating ever since. As Indigenous environmental activism in recent years shows, women have been and continue to be on the forefront of environmental protection on communal, national and global levels. The #IdleNoMore movement, founded by Jessica Gordon, Sylvia McAdam, Sheelah McLean and Nina Wilson in 2012, offers a key example for the involvement and activism of Indigenous women protesting resource extraction on Indigenous lands, related issues of human rights and social justice abuses, for powerful Indigenous and non-Indigenous alliances, and alliances between numerous marginalized groups against heteronormative frameworks of power. The #NoDAPL movement continues this joint anti corporate-capitalist effort to stop the erosion of rights of (Indigenous) people in favor of resource extraction, endangering the livelihood of people across North America. The Australian #StopAdani protest and most recently the We’suwet’en camp in British Columbia continue this trajectory of climate justice activism, and foreground the role and contribution of women in this struggle. The year of 2018 then saw the election of Sharice Davis and Deb Haaland to the Unites States Congress, which marks the first election of Indigenous women into major positions of power –a “milestone in the US political system,”as Eli Warkins commented for CNN (2018).</p>
<p>This issue of Gender Forum is thus dedicated to the exploration of female involvement in the project of de-constructing corporate power, resisting neo-colonial ventures into Indigenous (land) rights, and protecting the foundation of human subsistence against commodification. Are those efforts effective manifestations of what Ulrich Beck (1997) has termed “Sub-Politics”and/or agents of an emerging process Beck et al. (2003) described as “reflexive modernization,”unsettling the basic ideological premises of institutionalized power and (environmental) governance? What is the future of environmental activism and how do female activists help shaping and inspiring future engagement and strategies? How to conceptualize/systematize the interrelationship of climate change, social justice and human rights beyond Rob Nixon’s concept of“the environmentalism of the poor”(2011)? And, crucially, how do these lines of concern contribute to debates about Gender and the global cause for women’s rights generally?</p>
<p>Marking this increased visibility of female Indigenous actors in local and global causes for environmental and climate justice, we invite papers investigating the role of women in challenging frameworks of political engagement, action and power, which may include but are not limited to:</p>
<ul><li>Theorizations of Climate Justice and environmental activism</li>
<li>Tracing women’s environmental activism through history</li>
<li>Cross-overs between environmental- and other, related fields of activism</li>
<li>Cross-overs between Indigenous and non-Indigenous environmental activism/ Indigenous and non-Indigenous alliances</li>
<li>Issues of land rights, sovereignty and legislation (Bill C-45 and beyond)</li>
<li>The representation of women activists across time, genres and media</li>
<li>The role(s) of the arts in environmental protest</li>
<li>Eco-Feminsim and its evolution of focus and approach since the 1970s</li>
<li>The role of the Internet and Social Media in environmental activism</li>
<li>Environmental activism and its implication for global women’s rights advocacy</li>
<li>Reviews of fiction and non-fiction work related to the field sketched above</li>
<li>…</li>
</ul><p>Abstracts of no more than 300 words and a brief biography should be submitted by <strong>March 18</strong><strong>th</strong><strong>, 2019 </strong>to gender-forum[at]uni-koeln.de and David Kern kernd[at]uni-koeln.de. The deadline for the completed papers of 5000-8000 words (<em>MLA 8</em>, numbered paragraphs) is <strong>April</strong><strong> </strong><strong>21</strong><strong>th</strong><strong>, 2019.</strong></p>
<p><strong>(Publication date: Summer/Fall 2019)</strong></p>
</div></div></div>Mon, 04 Mar 2019 20:26:04 +0000youssefs@uni-koeln.de79706 at http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.eduNext Earth: Teaching Climate Change Across the Disciplines **DEADLINE EXTENDED**http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2019/03/02/next-earth-teaching-climate-change-across-the-disciplines-deadline-extended
<div class="field field-name-field-cfp-updated field-type-datestamp field-label-above"><div class="field-label">updated:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Friday, March 8, 2019 - 3:25pm</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-contact-name field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">full name / name of organization:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Environmental Humanities Initiative, University of California, Santa Barbara</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-contact-email field-type-email field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">contact email:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="mailto:hiltner@english.ucsb.edu">hiltner@english.ucsb.edu</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-categories field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">categories (up to 5):&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/ecocriticism-and-environmental-studies">ecocriticism and environmental studies</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/interdisciplinary">interdisciplinary</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/international-conferences">international conferences</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/pedagogy">pedagogy</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/category/science-and-culture">science and culture</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-due-date field-type-datetime field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">deadline for submissions:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">March 15, 2019</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-cfp-content field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p dir="ltr">Next Earth: Teaching Climate Change Across the Disciplines</p>
<p dir="ltr">A Nearly-Carbon Neutral Conference at UC Santa Barbara</p>
<p dir="ltr">June 10-30, 2019</p>
<p dir="ltr">Call for Papers</p>
<p dir="ltr">Recognizing the severity of the climate crisis, and driven by profound and renewed belief in the power of education to help reimagine and build a better, more sustainable, and environmentally just world, or “next Earth,” Transformative Education for Climate Action will be the theme of the summer 2019 nearly-carbon neutral conference for UC Santa Barbara’s Environmental Humanities Initiative (EHI). We invite your participation!</p>
<p dir="ltr">Abstracts of 250 words and a brief biographical note should be submitted by March 15 (extended from March 1) to John Foran (<a>foran@soc.ucsb.edu</a>). </p>
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<p dir="ltr">Although the scale of the problem demands that academia, the sciences, business, government, and the public quickly begin acting in concert to achieve the best possible outcomes, decades of inaction rooted in interest-driven conflict and disagreements have ushered in a new era of environmental and climate crises.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The range of possible futures includes widely divergent “next Earths” and any number of paths forward.</p>
<p dir="ltr">As educators in climate change, climate justice, critical sustainability, and carbon neutrality, our responsibility could not be greater to our students, for they are the generation that will forge the ideas that will determine which of these next Earths will be our home.</p>
<p dir="ltr">To that end, we would like to bring together critical climate and sustainability educators of every discipline, from the arts and humanities to the human and social sciences and the natural sciences, with a focus on sharing ideas to accelerate climate education and action in California and beyond. </p>
<p dir="ltr">We invite teachers, students, cultural creatives, and people from all walks of life who want to find better ways to enable students and teachers to apply their knowledge in innovative ways to real-world problems and to support each other in our collaborations in an open and wide-ranging project – imagining and creating “just transitions to the next Earth” – by reshaping our relationships with each other and the systems and institutions that determine the quality of life today and tomorrow for our own communities and communities around the world. Given the disparities and injustices that inhere in our global situation where those societies that are the major producers of greenhouse gas emissions are more insulated than others from the effects of climate change, we invite submissions that cultivate interdisciplinary and decolonizing approaches to teaching in this area. We are reaching out to college-level teachers and students in particular, but given the importance of the topic, this conference will be open to contributions that focus on any kind and age level. Note that our goal – as much as possible – is to have a nearly carbon-neutral conference. Even a relatively small academic conference can generate the equivalent of 20,000 pounds or more of CO2 (chiefly from travel). To put that number in perspective, this is the total annual carbon footprint of ten people living in India, thirty-three in Kenya. We believe that a conference that takes up the issue of climate change while simultaneously contributing to the problem to such a degree is immoderate. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Consequently, this conference will largely occur online. During the conference, which will take place over three weeks, talks will be available for viewing on the conference website. Q&amp;A will also take place online during this period, as participants and registered attendees will be able to pose questions to speakers via online comments and speakers will be able to reply in the same way. Both the talks and Q&amp;A sessions will remain up on the website as a permanent archive of the event.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Note that a conference using this format was staged at UC Santa Barbara in Summer 2018. That event, which you can view the complete archive of at <a href="http://ehc.english.ucsb.edu/?page_id=17731">http://ehc.english.ucsb.edu/?page_id=17731</a>, would be a good place to visit it if you have questions relating to how this conference will work. </p>
<p dir="ltr">While we realize that this approach will not replicate the face-to-face interaction of a conventional conference talk and Q&amp;A, we hope that it will nonetheless promote lively discussion, as well as help build a community of scholars with intersecting teaching and research interests. An advantage to this approach is that individuals who would not otherwise be able to become involved in the conference (owing to distance or financial limitations for example) will be able to fully take part. And significantly, this will allow our students to do so as well. There will be no registration fee for the conference. Although this online conference will have its own carbon footprint, as data centers and web activity also require energy, we expect that it will only be a small fraction of that of a conventional conference, likely just 1-3%.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Instead of traveling to the conference to attend panels and deliver a talk, speakers agree to do the following:</p>
<p dir="ltr">1) Film yourself giving a talk of 15-17 minutes. The webcams that come with desktop and laptop computers have improved dramatically over the past few years. Webcams with noise cancelling microphones, which can be purchased for under $50, can often provide even better quality. It is also the case that most computers have video recording software preinstalled, such as Apple’s QuickTime. Consequently, it is now possible, and relatively easy, to record a talk of surprisingly good quality in your home or office. How easy is it and how good is the quality? A sample talk that explains the concept and process in detail can be found here: <a href="http://ehc.english.ucsb.edu/?p=12048">http://ehc.english.ucsb.edu/?p=12048</a>.</p>
<p dir="ltr">2) Take part in your online Q&amp;A session by responding to questions raised by your talk. You will automatically receive an email each time a new question is posed. Only registered conference participants (this includes speakers, as well as others who register to follow the conference) will be posing questions.</p>
<p dir="ltr">3) View as many of the talks as possible, posing questions of your own to speakers. This is especially important, as this is how you will meet and interact with other conference participants. As with any academic conference, our goal is help establish relationships and to build a community. In this case, since travel has been removed from the equation, our hope is that this community will be diverse and truly global.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">While we welcome international submissions, the talk itself should either be in English or subtitled (see below) in English. The Q&amp;A will be in English. You should also note that you have viewed the sample video and agree both to the above conference requirements and to allow your filmed talk to be posted to the conference website, as well as our Vimeo, YouTube, and SoundCloud accounts. As noted below, the talks will become part of a permanent conference archive open to the public.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Abstracts are due by March 15, 2019 (extended from March 1).</p>
<p dir="ltr">Participants will be informed if their submissions have been accepted by March 20.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Videos of the talks will be due by June 1.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The online conference will take place from June 10-30.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Please send any questions to Ken Hiltner (<a>hiltner@english.ucsb.edu</a>).</p>
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<p dir="ltr">John Foran, co-coordinator</p>
<p dir="ltr">Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies</p>
<p dir="ltr">Ken Hiltner, co-coordinator<br />Professor of English and Environmental Studies</p>
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